Internet of Things and Inter-cooperative Computational Technologies for Collective Intelligence (Studies in Computational Intelligence) 2013th Edition

Over the past two decades, we have witnessed unprecedented innovations in the development of miniaturized electromechanical devices and low-power wireless communication making practical the embedding of networked computational devices into a rapidly widening range of material entities.
This trend has enabled the coupling of physical objects and digital information into cyber-physical systems and it is widely expected to revolutionize the way resource computational consumption and provision will occur. Specifically, one of the core ingredients of this vision, the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), demands the provision of networked services to support interaction between conventional IT systems with both physical and artificial objects. In this way, IoT is seen as a combination of several emerging technologies, which enables the transformation of everyday objects into smart objects. It is also perceived as a paradigm that connects real world with digital world.
The focus of this book is exactly on the novel collective and computational intelligence technologies that will be required to achieve this goal. While, one of the aims of this book is to discuss the progress made, it also prompts future directions on the utilization of inter-operable and cooperative next generation computational technologies, which supports the IoT approach, that being an advanced functioning towards an integrated collective intelligence approach for the benefit of various organizational settings.

在過去的二十年中，我們目睹了微型電機機械裝置和低功率無線通信方面的前所未有的創新，使得將網絡計算設備嵌入到不斷擴大的物質實體中成為可能。這一趨勢使得物理物體和數字信息能夠相互結合成為物聯網系統，並且被廣泛認為將革命性地改變資源計算的消耗和提供方式。具體而言，這一願景的核心要素之一，即所謂的物聯網（IoT），需要提供網絡服務，以支持傳統IT系統與物理和人工物體之間的互動。通過這種方式，物聯網被視為幾種新興技術的結合，使得日常物品能夠變成智能物品。它也被認為是將現實世界與數字世界相連接的一種範式。本書的重點正是關於實現這一目標所需的新型集體和計算智能技術。雖然本書的目的之一是討論已取得的進展，但它也提出了未來在利用可互操作和合作的下一代計算技術方面的方向，這些技術支持物聯網的方法，並朝著整合集體智能方法的目標在各種組織環境中發揮作用。